Rickrack & Rydawg: Breaking the Gloss Barrier! (lots of pics!)

Stratous said:
30+ hours? I think you could rethink your process.



I work at a rare body shop where quality truly is priority. I can wetsand, buff, and polish a car that size in 3 - 4 hours.
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3-4 hours. Yeah Right. Maybe 3-4 days.



Stratous said:
It's not cover up work either, when I do a complete in a couple hours, it is complete. The car still looks fantastic weeks later.
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3 secret words = Solvent Wipe Down
 
Rob Tomlin said:
:eek:



Simply amazing work guys! :bow





It reminds me of my black '69 Camaro that some friends and I painted ourselves using acrylic enamel paint. We wet sanded it a couple of weeks later, and I was beyond a nervous wreck when we were done. I was just sure that the paint would be ruined as we would never bring the gloss back again. I actually drove the car around for a couple of weeks (while the paint cured) after it was wet sanded. The car looked like we were starting over, and went back to primer!



The end result after compounding and polishing was amazing. A black car with zero orange peel is pretty awesome!



It was a SS paint though, and certainly wasn't anything close to what you guys had to deal with here! Hats off to both of you! :up
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Thank you Rob!



I miss SS paint so bad.
 
TH0001 said:
Ignorant post imo... Bringing gloss up is one thing but completely removing sanding marks (not just making them shiny, as seems to be the norm for most autopians unfortunatly) takes forever. Sometimes you have to hit the area with a compound many many many times.



Getting a car to 90 percent of its maximum is easy (and takes 1/10 the time) which is obviously what you guys are achieving. As you approach perfection the time needed increases expotentialy. It is obvious from the results there that not only did they get the car perfect but, IMO, did it pretty quickly.
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Thank you Todd!:chuckle:
 
:bow Wow! That is madness you guys, absolute madness. That is one incredible transformation. Awesome job! :2thumbs: I don't get how the people at the other shop wetsanded the heck out of that car, yet they were too scared to polish :think: Well, good thing you guys were around.
 
I was thinking the same, but he said they could not remove the sanding marks at all and they were getting scared of heating the paint. I guess they had a few incidents in the past, so they stick to painting. I hope next time they let us do the sanding as it will make it easier on us.
 
Hi all,



Does anyone know the phone number of Rick's new auto detailing shop in Burlington?



I would like to have our car detailed by these pros, but for some reasons, I couldn't find their number on the directory.



Please pm me, thanks!
 
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